Whole foods that are sweet but have their fibre intact, such as dates or raisins, rather than refined white sugar.

Baked rather than fried foods.

Freshly prepared home-made meals rather than those that come out of a packet or off the supermarket shelf.

A whole-food, plant-based diet is based around five groups of food:

Fruit

Vegetables

Beans and legumes

Whole grains and cereals

Nuts and seeds

There are hundreds of different types of food in these five groups. There’s far more variety, choice and freedom in plant-based eating than with a diet mainly based on animal-products. It’s really quite exciting!

The modern Western diet focuses on the three main large nutrient groups - carbohydrate, fat and protein. Opinion varies almost day to day about whether it's good to eat more protein, or fat, or carbohydrate. There is much confusion and often people doubt they can get sufficient nutrients on a plant-based diet.

A whole-food plant-based diet is just that - foods that are whole, and therefore contain whole nutrients in the balance that nature intended. It does not focus on, or define a particularly food as a 'protein' or a 'fat' or a 'carb', especially as there is so much more to food than just these large bulk nutrients. Micronutrients in the form of vitamins, mineral and phytonutrients are essential to our health and well-being; many of these are lost as soon as food moves from being whole to refined.

If you want to learn more about this, my book Eat Well Live Well with The Sensitive Foodie is packed full of information about the benefits of eating whole plant foods for the whole body. And all my recipes on the blog and in the book are based on using wonderfully tasty and healthful whole foods.

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